Richard Harrington corrected a written answer on Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Brexit

11 March 2019 · Commons written answer · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat, Oxford West and Abingdon) asked written question 196904 on 28 November 2018. Richard Harrington answered on 10 December 2018 for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and Richard Harrington corrected the answer on 11 March 2019. The corrected text no longer gives the figure 3.5. Altogether 99 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2018 to Question 194759 on Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Brexit and the Answer of 19 November 2018 to Question 190945 on Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Brexit, for what reason his Department is unable to provide that information.

Original and corrected answer

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~~The Department does~~ not ~~hold this information centrally,~~ and ~~providing this information would incur~~ disproportionate cost. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3.5 working days in determining whether the Department holds the information, including locating, retrieving and extracting this. The Act provides that we are not obliged to comply with requests where the estimated cost of complying would exceed this limit. Due to the breadth and nature of your request, we estimate that meeting the request could not be done within the appropriate time limit set out by the Act.	This information is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Original

Corrected

~~The Department does~~ not ~~hold this information centrally,~~ and ~~providing this information would incur~~ disproportionate cost. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3.5 working days in determining whether the Department holds the information, including locating, retrieving and extracting this. The Act provides that we are not obliged to comply with requests where the estimated cost of complying would exceed this limit.
Due to the breadth and nature of your request, we estimate that meeting the request could not be done within the appropriate time limit set out by the Act.

This information is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

The question and answer on the Parliament website.

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